Use this in your funtions.php to register sidebar
if ( function_exists('register_sidebar') )
register_sidebar(array('name'=>'Sidebar ',
'id'=>'sidebar',
'before_widget' => '<div>',
'after_widget' => '</div>',
'before_title' => '<p>',
'after_title' => '</p>',
));
To use it in your theme use the following
<?php
if ( !function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') || !dynamic_sidebar('sidebar') ) :
endif;
?>
Refer this to know more : http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/register_sidebar